“I can confirm that I and my firm have been representing the Lieutenant Governor since January 2018,” said Rakesh Kilaru, a partner with Wilkinson Walsh + Eskovitz.

Fairfax first brought on the firm of Wilkinson Walsh + Eskovitz in January 2018 in connection with a possible Washington Post story about allegations brought by Vanessa Tyson, an associate politics professor at Scripps College. The Post investigated her claim, but did report on it because they could not corroborate Tyson’s account.

Tyson said in a statement today--her first public comment on the case--that Fairfax forced her to have oral sex in a hotel room at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. She said the alleged assault caused her “grief, shame, and anger.”